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Africa North
Egyptians ransack ferry firm office
2006-02-07
Angry Egyptians awaiting news of relatives who were aboard a ferry which sank in the Red Sea last week ransacked the office of the vessel's owners on Monday and set fire to the furniture, witnesses said. Reuters Television footage showed a crowd of men hurling chairs, filing cabinets and airconditioning units out of the first floor office, piling them up in front of the building and starting the fire, shouting and chanting as they did so. Witnesses had earlier said the fire had been set inside the office building, used by the el Salam Maritime Transport Company and located near the Red Sea port of Safaga. Police fired tear gas to drive away the crowd and firefighters doused the flames.
Posted by:Fred

#13  *
I'm still working on the 6 part. Mr. 6
Posted by: RD   2006-02-07 19:16  

#12  You know...

Cruel Zen Koan WBAPGNFAB
Posted by: 6   2006-02-07 19:08  

#11  Well i'd hire a good lawyer. But Im not sure that works as well in Egypt.

My point is to lash out in anger at folks whove done you wrong (dont know if there was evidence tehre) is more understandable than lashing out about some cartoons.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2006-02-07 17:46  

#10  Rioting must be the default muslim action to confusion or frustration.

Sure sounds like it. They couldn't even wait for the whitewash before rioting.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2006-02-07 17:31  

#9  What, someone kills your relative, and the first thing you'd do would be act to destroy evidence?
Posted by: Phil   2006-02-07 16:12  

#8  Id say its a helluva lot saner to ransack the offices of a company that was negligent in the deaths of your kinfolk then to ransack an embassy over a bunch of silly cartoons.

I mean just consider this there cheaper alternative to tort lawyers. :)
Posted by: liberalhawk   2006-02-07 14:48  

#7  I'm constantly confused and frustrated, and yet I don't riot... ergo, I'm not muslim. Kewl. That was close.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-02-07 13:51  

#6  Rioting must be the default muslim action to confusion or frustration.
Posted by: Graimp Phereque4877   2006-02-07 13:34  

#5  What is the sound of one body floating?

"Splish-splash"???
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-02-07 13:07  

#4  It is like a cruel Zen Koan.

What is the sound of one body floating?
Posted by: Zenster   2006-02-07 11:15  

#3  It is like a cruel Zen Koan.

*snort*
Posted by: .com   2006-02-07 10:44  

#2  The ferry firm office ransacking is just the Egyptians' coming to terms with the Insh'Allah thing. It is like a cruel Zen Koan.

Of course, a properly designed, crewed, and maintained ferry would minimize great tragedies like the one we have witnessed, but such banal tasks would be beneath the the dignity of the followers of Allan. Like I said before: Insh'Allah for them.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2006-02-07 10:13  

#1  It's very confusing to me : did the ferry firm publish some kind of cartoons about old Mo' or something? They were chanting? What were they chanting? Brit pop? The Ramones? Were the hurled chairs zionist? Danish-made? Ikea, perhaps? But Ikea is swedish, or is it from Norway, can't remember.

I'm lost here, please help me. I'm so confused.

Anyway, glad to see that Moderate Muslims(tm) stay true to type.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-02-07 07:59  

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